Sentences with phrase «strengthen state ethics»

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Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

We're disappointed that state lawmakers, though slapped across the face by major scandals, left the Capitol last month without doing anything to strengthen ethics and campaign finance laws.

Additionally, the problem of Albany corruption again being addressed not by internal state watchdogs, but instead by the U.S. Attorney who this month is prosecuting charges against the two most recent former legislative leaders, demonstrates the clear need to strengthen our state's own ethics enforcement.

«Closing the LLC loophole is an overdue, necessary step in strengthening ethics and curbing the negative influence of money in state and local governments.

«Any serious attempt by the Governor and the legislature to strengthen ethics laws must include a ban on outside income, an end to the LLC loophole, and greater transparency within the state's budget process.»

«You're not serious about cleaning up corruption and strengthening the state's ethics laws if you can't even comply with the laws that are on the books now.

Good - government groups hope it will spur Cuomo and the state legislature to act on ethics reforms, including public financing of campaigns and strengthening official watchdogs, like the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

STOP the corruption tax by strengthening and enforcing ethics laws and requiring conflict of interest statements for every Legislator and State contract.

What will they to do to open up and strengthen the state's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics?

Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

Not surprisingly, both the Senate Majority Leader and the Assembly Speaker discussed the looming debate over how to strengthen the state's ethics.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

In May 1946, NAR's Professional Standards Committee was formed to help strengthen the Code and promote ethics education and enforcement efforts in state and local associations.